Weighing the combined challenges of endurance, strength, power, speed, agility, flexibility, nerve, durability, hand-eye coordination, and something called analytic aptitude, ESPN.com declares that ice hockey is the second-most difficult and demanding sport, right behind boxing.
The panel of “experts” arrived at a few suspect conclusions. (Baseball somehow scores 4.63-out-of-10 for endurance, but doesn’t get its deserved 10-out-of-10 on the pot belly scale.) But it’s about time they got something right over there.
ESPN.com’s Top Ten Toughest Sports:
1.Boxing
2.Ice Hockey
3.Football
4.Basketball
5.Wrestling
6.Martial Arts
7.Tennis
8.Gymnastics
9.Baseball/Softball
10.Soccer
I don’t know about you guys, but some of those don’t seem quite right. What about rugby? I’m pretty sure Aussie Rules beats Baseball. What do you think? What do you think is the toughest sport of all?
Courtesy of About.com
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